The boring truth about why groups don't get invited to interviews

kirubakaran wrote: post #4

I thought pg once said that there is no limit on the number of groups they can fund in a cycle. I'll post a reference link if I find one. Update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066 [ thanks to http://www.searchyc.com ]

There's no limit on the percentage of groups we interview that we can accept, but there is a limit on the number we can interview.

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Post by jeroen » Thu, Apr 10, 2008, 4:52 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #4

I thought pg once said that there is no limit on the number of groups they can fund in a cycle. I'll post a reference link if I find one. Update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066 [ thanks to http://www.searchyc.com ]

This is about the limit on interviewing, not funding. Maybe the selection process after the interviews _is_ "like a grade in a class."

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Post by ntoshev » Thu, Apr 10, 2008, 4:53 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #5

kirubakaran wrote: post #4

I thought pg once said that there is no limit on the number of groups they can fund in a cycle. I'll post a reference link if I find one. Update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066 [ thanks to http://www.searchyc.com ]

There's no limit on the percentage of groups we interview that we can accept, but there is a limit on the number we can interview.

So this is the first scalability bottleneck you have hit?

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Post by pg » Thu, Apr 10, 2008, 4:56 PM UTC

jeroen wrote: post #7

kirubakaran wrote: post #4

I thought pg once said that there is no limit on the number of groups they can fund in a cycle. I'll post a reference link if I find one. Update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066 [ thanks to http://www.searchyc.com ]

This is about the limit on interviewing, not funding. Maybe the selection process after the interviews _is_ "like a grade in a class."

Yes, and at that stage we do give detailed, individual feedback to everyone.

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Post by Alex3917 » Thu, Apr 10, 2008, 4:56 PM UTC

ubudesign wrote: post #3

only a suggestion but since there are many aplicants, the selection proccess could be done in more stages.

This seems like a good idea on the surface, but in practice I don't see how it would work. There are only two real categories of information being collected, the information about the idea and the information about the team. And it doesn't really make sense to separate the evaluation into two different phases since the variables are multiplicative; that is, if the value of one is zero then the value of the whole equation is zero.